What Football Game Matters Most?
Mazie Shanahan
2025-06-19 21:21:17
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Saturday’s Championship Play-Off Final is worth £170m to the winning team, making it football’s most lucrative match, according to Deloitte. “Saturday’s winner-takes-all contest at Wembley will be another fantastic advert for the Championship, as Brentford and Swansea compete for a place in the Premier League – the most lucrative prize in world football,” Bridge added. The Wembley fixture, to decide which team gets the remaining place in next season’s Premier League, is this year between Brentford and Swansea City.
Amir Walter
2025-06-16 19:49:10
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It is not the money received directly from coming out on top in the game, it is actually the future benefits that the successful club will receive that make this the 'richest game in football'. They revealed promotion will mean an increase in revenue of at least £135million over the next three seasons for the triumphant club. That could rise to £265m over five years if the club avoids relegation in their first season in the Premier League. A lot of that money will come from TV and commercial payments for playing in the English top flight.
Isac Kuvalis
2025-06-05 00:02:30
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The Championship play-off final. The match has earned that tag because it is estimated to be worth £170m to £305m in additional revenue over three seasons to the winners, who gain promotion to the Premier League. The value of winning the Championship play-off final comprises two elements: Premier League central distributions and parachute payments. All clubs in the Premier League receive a distribution of centrally generated revenues – mostly from broadcast contracts – which result in payouts ranging from around £160m for the winners to £100m for the team finishing last. That is about £95m a year more than clubs receive from the Championship, and that figure is multiplied for every subsequent season teams can stay in the top flight. The promise of Premier League revenue makes the Championship play-off final the richest game in football.
Kyle Gislason
2025-06-02 20:20:11
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IT is one of the most valuable games in world football with the riches of the Premier League at stake. But the winners will rejoin the elite of British football as one of the 20 equal shareholders of the Premier League and take a share of the billions of pounds earned from UK and overseas broadcast rights. The remaining balance is split equally between Merit and Facilities payments, which are proportionally awarded based on the final league table position and the number of live television appearances respectively. Overseas income, which is estimated to be of similar annual value to UK rights, is generally shared equally with an excess being allocated on merit.
Meredith Reinger
2025-05-21 19:20:41
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After the expensive relegation, the lucrative promotion. They return to the world’s richest league courtesy of the world’s richest game, their prize for play-off victory probably beginning at £140m and, if they stay up, worth rather more. If Bobby Stokes, the hero of the 1976 FA Cup final, still has the most famous Wembley winner in Southampton’s history, Adam Armstrong has the most lucrative.
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